It takes some time for the taste buds to change and re-learn what is actually needed in order to stay or get healthy. If you've been eating junk food with lots of bad fat, salt and sugar this is what your body will crave and the food that is actually good for you might not always taste that good in the beginning.

I experienced this when I changed my diet. The food I was eating that first summer was really not very exciting. (Partly, of course, because I wasn't used to preparing that kind of food.) My taste buds were looking for the taste of salt, sugar and transfats and they didn't find it in my diet so I actually felt quite deprived. It takes about eight weeks to get rid of an addiction and calibrate the inner thermometer so in whoever wants to change should not expect miracles in the first day.

Today, however, is a completely different story for me. My favorite food used to be pasta with minced meat and ketchup but has changed to zucchini spaghetti with tomatoes and tahini dressing. I used to crave candy but it just takes one glance and my body sends a clear signal, don't eat it. When I sweeten my smoothie with banana I think it tastes too sweet. I can get cravings for kale or spinach when I've been without for a few days travelling and that used to be the "necessary good" at the end of my meals.

It's not unusual when I treat someone with a raw food dessert that they're reaction is It's good, but something is missing and that is often a the processed suger, or the chemical additives you find in conventional treats that the body is used to.

It's so worth giving the body some time to adjust, I will never ever go back to how I used to eat because my health, energy and life has improved so dramatically. My suggestion to anyone who wants to change is to go slow and start by adding instead of removing, listening to your body and you will eventually learn to hear its true needs.